Nathan Fillion: Superhero Toenail Artiste

Nathan snazzed up his girlfriend's toes with some comic book art - DC for one foot &​ Marvel for the other.

TranscriptCONAN: And I was flipping through it and one of the things that listed under your many talents besides being a fantastic actor, you like to paint toenails and I didn't know if that's a joke or if that's a real thing.
NATHAN FILLION: So, here's how that happened.
First of all, it's a giant pain in the ass.
CONAN: It's true.
NATHAN FILLION: The canvas is very small.
But my girlfriend was looking at these incredible toy nail cards online.
She said put your money where your mouth is.
Actually that's not what she said -- she actually said -- my girlfriend's Spanish.
She speaks English without an accent.
You'd never know what's foreign.
But all the English idioms.
She said, really, put your money in your mouth.
[Laughter]
I don't think I should --
[Laughter]
CONAN: Does she have another one?
NATHAN FILLION: Oh, there's another one.
OK, look, I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm going to put all my cars on the table -- don't put any cars on the table.
CONAN: She said cars?
NATHAN FILLION: Cars.
One time we were at dinner.
It was a good one.
Yeah -- well, if I had a nipple for every time I heard that.
[Laughter]
CONAN: Well, apparently you've heard it twice.
NATHAN FILLION: This is actually -- she's a very smart lady.
She's in mensa, getting her masters.
But English is pretty tricky.
English is tricky.
CONAN: She insists that you try out your handiwork but your footwork --
NATHAN FILLION: I did it.
CONAN: I think we have a Samp of your work -- a sample of your work here.
That's really good.
That's really good!
NATHAN FILLION: We did one foot marvel and one foot D.C.
CONAN: That's incredible.
That keeps the relationship fresh.
NATHAN FILLION: It's not easy work.
Let me tell you.
CONAN: I know we talked about being a celebrity and being someone who is increasingly well known, you use an alias when you go to Starbucks.
But you don't use Nathan Fillion.
NATHAN FILLION: I like to keep a low profile.
One of the things I found out was, you know, if you -- if someone announces your name and someone thinks you might be someone then they know.
So I put a false name when I order my Starbucks.
I use George Clooney.
CONAN: This is true.
I think we have twitter picture of it.
You have George Clooney on yours.
NATHAN FILLION: Yeah.
Is that guy from "castle"?
They don't do that.
They go that's not George Clooney.
CONAN: It takes all the pressure off.
Do you get recognized a lot? Because it's a town where there are tour buses driving around checking people out.
NATHAN FILLION: When I first moved to L.A., I saw the star line tours.
I thought one day I'm going to wave.
I'm going do be somebody and I'm going to wave at those buses and they're going to go, ah, that was that guy.
And this just happened last summer.
We were doing two or actors and myself, we auctioned off a lunch for charity food on foot getting homeless people homes and we auctioned off a lunch.
This wonderful couple deprame Australia.
-- came from Australia.
We're all over this town.
We pulled up next to one of those star line van.
-- vans.
I said let's say hello.
Hey, everybody in the van, this is J.R. board.
He was on "revenge."
Heir going, oh, my God.
Click, click, click.
And Mike said this is my friend Nathan.
He's on "castle."
And they go.
Close but no.
CONAN: Not him.
NATHAN FILLION: But close.
[Laughter]